bytesplit
Use bluefish as an open-source html editor. There is an option to create thumbnails from your images, i used that option before and it is pretty good.
For the renaming part, there are lots of programs at freshmeat.net that generate whole html pages of a collection of pics, just take a look into them.

To everyone else: I am sorry to reply via a diary.

Hacking:
I am short before to release the echelon signature generator. The keywords are already done and i have most of the code pieces already, now i only have to write them together. The text editor in Python still suffers of one major bug so that i can't release it right now, the GUI and everything else is done, but the text window has this one bug where i can't write anything into it. I don't know where the problem is, i checked the code several times, maybe i should update my PyGtk. I got alot of new features for my shell script, but i have a lack of time right now so there won't be an update for the next few weeks.

School:
I am just enjoying the last few days of my 2 week vacation from school. After that i have 2 tests to do (economy and math) and 3 oral exams, which are really difficult. Seems like i am failing this year.

Life:
Well, if everything goes well, then i should graduate soon (if i don't fail those exams) and then hopefully i can study somewhere. I already did 3 written exams a month ago, which didn't went as planned. Ah well, hopefully everything will be fine.
The Roskilde festival is soon, i am going to meet with some of the members of Linuxlamers.org at that Festival. Is anyone else going there? I am really looking forward to the performance of Nelly Furtado and several other good stage performances.
The WC starts on saturday, germany plays its first game on saturday too, this time at a human time, not early in the morning where normal people have to work or go to school. Seems like this will be the only game im going to see. They won't come far at all, way too many injured players right now.

Ok, so this was my first diary entry, hey, and it has had some open source and programming parts :)